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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday extended for a month the date of appearance of the Ambani borthers before a city court in connection with an Official Secrets Act case. Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Managing Director Anil Ambani, who were issued fresh summonses by the Chief Metroplitan Magistrate on May 26 asking them to appear before the trial court on July 7, would now make their presence on August 7. Justice R C Chopra granted a month's reprieve to the Ambanis after their counsel Kapil Sibal and D C Mathur submitted that the case was already fixed for August 8 and no purpose would be served by forcing them to appear a month before the scheduled date.

NEW DELHI: Two Petroleum Ministry employees are among five persons arrested for allegedly leaking confidential government documents to private companies, Delhi Police said today. Sources said a clerical staff and a peon of the Petroleum Ministry were apprehended by the police. They said provisions of Official Secrets Act may be slapped on them. The sources said the two Petroleum Ministry employees used to provide confidential information to private companies in return for money.

NEW DELHI: Taking exception to Reliance Group president V Balasubramaniam's failure to appear before it in an Official Secrets Act case, a Delhi court on Tuesday asked him to remain present during the proceedings on January 31. CMM Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, who ordered Balasubramaniam to appear before her on the next date of hearing, however, allowed his lawyer's plea for exemption for Tuesday, sources said. Balasubramaniam and two other Reliance officials, A N Sethuraman and Shankar Adawal,?

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police chargesheeted disgraced diplomat Madhuri Gupta accusing her of passing secret information to Pakistan's ISI during her posting in Islamabad. Gupta, who was arrested in April, has been accused of being in touch with two ISI officials, Mubshar Raza Rana and Jamshed. The over 700-page chargesheet and annexures filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja sought the prosecution of the IFS Group B officer under various provisions of the Official Secrets Act and the Indian Penal Code.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday asked Reliance Industries to file a reply by February 19 regarding some relevant documents filed by CBI in the Official Secrets Act case against the company's officials. Chief metropolitan magistrate Reena Singh Nag adjourned the case to February 19 and asked Reliance to file its reply by then. On September 24, the then CMM K S Pal had directed the Investigating Officer in the case against Reliance officials to produce the case diary alongwith relevant documents.

NEW DELHI: CBI sleuths may have to take a tip or two about Internet's potential and that too from a former RAW official, an accused under Official Secrets Act. The sleuths realised this when the CBI summoned Major General (retd) V K Singh yesterday again for a fresh round of questioning for the second consecutive day during which the agency accused him of naming some of the officials posted in Research and Analysis Wing, country's external intelligence gathering body. The CBI sleuths, in their attempt to grill Singh, said that by naming the officials in his book working in RAW, he had allegedly violated Section five of the Official Secrets Act (wrongful communication of information)

NEW DELHI: Former Army chief Gen VK Singh has issued a legal notice to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde , threatening to drag him to court over alleged "failure" to act upon his complaints of "sedition and treason" against certain individuals. In the notice served to the Home Minister through his lawyer Vishwajeet Singh , the retired General, who joined BJP today, said, "Why judicial intervention should not be sought in the matter against you for dereliction of duty in such a serious matter that has direct implications on India's national security.

NEW DELHI: Thousands of CCTVs will be installed soon in all government buildings housing the central ministries or departments in Delhi, the Modi government has decided after multiple espionage scandals have been exposed by Delhi Police and CBI over the last one month. A high-level meeting has been held at the Cabinet Secretariat on the issue, a source said. ET was the first to report on February 23 that the government was planning installation of CCTVs in the corridors of certain sensitive and vulnerable ministries including home, defence, telecom, finance, power, coal, environment and petroleum ministries.

NEW DELHI: A nondescript Delhi court today stunned the corporate world by ordering the arrest of two top officials of Reliance Industries ? group vice president A N Sethuraman and corporate affairs GM Shanker Adawal ? and issuing non-bailable warrant against a close aide of Mr Dhirubhai Ambani, group president V Balasubramaniam, who is reportedly convalescing from a brain tumour surgery. This legal crackdown came in connection with the recovery of classified documents from the RIL corporate office here and a subsequent case against these officials under the Official Secrets Act. The case had been dragging now for about four years and the general understanding was that the documents recovered from the office of these officials were not so sensitive as to attract strict punitive action.

CHENNAI: National Investigation Agency today filed the charge sheet in a court here in a case of alleged espionage and attempts to carry out sabotage activities in India at the instigation of Pakistan. It was filed at a NIA court against Thameem Ansari, a suspected operative of ISI now on bail and a Sri Lankan national, Arun Selvarajan, besides three others who are their handlers in Pakistan and suspected to be based in Sri Lanka. "The offences against the accused include those under Unlawful Activities [Prevention]